186 Account of the Ipomaea Tuberosa. 



It was also sent from Mexico, to Messrs. John Fraser and 

 Son, by Don Joseph Nicholas de Paralber, and a bag 

 of its seeds ripened at Charles Town, last autumn, have been 

 just imported. 



References to Plate X. 



1, Style and stigma: 2, a pericarpium, the upper part of 

 which fig. 3, has been cut away, with the four seeds : 4, the 

 upper part of the same seen internally, shewing the thin 

 septum : 5, a single seed. All the parts are drawn of their 

 natural size. 



